Standard remediation actions

Oct 08, 2015

Standard actions

The following table provides a list of the standard remediation actions that are built into AppDNA. Each action has one or more associated action details. You can change the action and action detail that is associated with an algorithm and you can also add your own custom actions and action details, as described in Add a remediation action.

Action

Effort

Action RAG

Description

Additional testing required

Hard

Amber

Additional testing is required

Additional XenApp testing required

Medium

Green

Additional XenApp testing required

Application virtualization

Easy

Green

Deploy using an application virtualization technology.

App-V 4.6

Easy

Green

Use App-V 4.6

App-V 5.0

Easy

Green

Use App-V 5.0

App-V Management Console modifications

Easy

Green

Modifications are required in the App-v Management Console

Auto

Easy

Green

Use an automatic fix

Change GPO

Easy

Green

Change Group Policy

Change hardware

Hard

Red

Change hardware

Change OS

Medium

Green

Change operating system build

Change software

Medium

Amber

Change software

Desktop virtualization

Easy

Green

Deploy using a desktop virtualization technology

Edit OSD file

Easy

Green

The OSD file requires editing

Exception

Hard

Red

Remediation is not possible (the application may need to be redeveloped or decommissioned)

Firefox in-house redevelopment required

Medium

Green

The Web application needs to be redeveloped to solve this issue

Firefox redevelopment required

Hard

Red

The Web application needs to be redeveloped to solve this issue

Firefox remediations

Easy

Green

Firefox remediations are required to get Web pages to work as expected

IE infrastructure changes

Medium

Amber

Environment infrastructure changes are required

IE in-house redevelopment required

Medium

Green

The web application needs to be redeveloped to solve this issue

IE redevelopment required

Hard

Red

The application needs to be redeveloped

IE remediations

Easy

Green

Remediation to get web pages to work as expected

No remediation required

Easy

Green

No remediation is required

Redevelopment required

Hard

Red

The application must be redeveloped to remediate the issue

Repackage

Easy

Green

The application must be repackaged or the MSI edited to remediate the issue

Sequence

Easy

Green

Sequencing steps need to be followed

Sequence

Hard

Green

Sequencing steps need to be followed

Sequence advanced

Medium

Green

Advanced sequencing steps need to be followed

Shim

Medium

Green

A shim will be applied to the application to remediate the issue

Undefined

Not defined

Undefined

No action is defined for remediation

Virtualization exception

Hard

Red

Remediation may not be possible

WorxWeb in-house redevelopment required

Medium

Green

The web application needs to be redeveloped to solve this issue

WorxWeb redevelopment required

Medium

Green

The web application needs to be redeveloped to solve this issue

WorxWeb remediations

Easy

Green

WorxWeb remediations are required to get web pages to work as expected

XenApp

Easy

Green

XenApp steps need to be followed

Standard action details

This section lists the action details that are available for each of the standard actions.

Additional testing required

Action detail

Description

Application requires functionality testing

Application requires functionality testing

Assess application security risk

Assess application security risk

Driver compatibility test required

Driver compatibility test required

Driver component requires further testing

Driver component requires further testing

Verify application publisher is trustworthy

Verify application publisher is trustworthy

Additional XenApp testing required

Action detail

Description

Additional testing may be required

Additional testing may be required

Application virtualization

Action detail

Description

Deploy application using an application virtualization technology, such as App-V

Deploy application using an application virtualization technology, such as App-V